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Overview

  • 16 references 12 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in English; learning Danish, Italian
  • 54, Male
  • Member since 2007
  • academic (poetry and poetics)
  • PhD
  • From these days, Seoul
  • Profile 90% complete

About Me

CURRENT MISSION

think, travel, write

ABOUT ME

www.dandisney.com

PHILOSOPHY

Knock hard ... life's deaf

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

...extremely positive! I have been the recipient of fantastic generosity, which I hope to return either directly or otherwise via Couchsurfers. I love the idea of hosting folk.

Interests

  • traveling

Music, Movies, and Books

BOOKS
Prose fiction: anything by Michel Houellebecq or Jeffrey Eugenides.
Prose nonfiction: Heidegger, Wittgenstein, Derrida.
Poetry: what I like best/ read most ... anything contemporary, experimental, humanistic: Peter Reading, Dan Chaisson, Sharon Olds, Anne Carson, Robert Hass.

MUSIC: Radiohead, Magnetic Fields, early Sonic Youth, Stereolab.

MOVIES: arthouse; anything that's not 'factory-made'!

One Amazing Thing I’ve Done

Seen: a 'cloudbow' (that is, a wispy cloud with fantastic, deep rainbow colours) above Brig, Switzerland: surrounded by people, we all collectively hallucinated this amazing, amazing thing ... I was shocked by how beautiful it was!!

Done: the busride to Ladakh from Manali, India: 2 days of sphincter-tightening curves at manic speed, peering over road's edge and into an abyss ...

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